In Pictures: Greatest tech battles ever told

In honour of the patent war heating up between Apple and Samsung, we're looking back at epic tech battles. The one thing they all have in common: the future of the universe hung in the balance. (Okay, not the universe but a really big market.)

If you were following the tech scene in the 1990s, you'd remember the browser war between Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator -- one that drew in the Department of Justice and put Microsoft in the crosshairs of a precedent-setting antitrust case. It led to the surreal sight of Bill Gates testifying and saying over and over, "I don't recall." That's right, the same guy with the brilliant mind.

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